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Baruch Spinoza: Prophet of a Modern Worldview ZION,N Mark ザイオン,ナターン マーク この資料の著作権は、資料の著作者または学校法人中央大学に帰属します。著作権法が定める私的利用・引用を超える使用を希望される場合には、掲載誌発行部局へお問い合わせください。 Baruch Spinoza Rene Descartes the Enlightenment the Inquisition Kabbalah Ethics Treatise of Theology and Politics human rights tolerance democracy religious conflict Maimonides, free-will determinism predestination application/pdf Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), one of the callosal figures of Western philosophy, has been underappreciated.Few today recognize his contribution to global civilization, especially his focus on human rights and democratic values. His concern for the psychological health of people is also unique among modern philosophers. In some of this he followed various Greek philosophers, insisting that the pursuit of meaning and understanding must also be a social good, even transformative for those engaged in it. His valuesystem came from his Jewish upbringing, however, where the methodical study of the Torah, Talmud, and Kabbalah was also meant to be elevating. Spinoza took this approach, along with concepts from philosophers of his day, and applied them universally, believing that an enlightened humanity would create a more peaceful world (or at least one where religious conflict is reduced). He also answered the question of what kind of world would emerge when religion, politics, and even ethics were based on empirical objectivity rather than on religion or ideology. A rational world, he asserted, would be a much better one for everyone. In this article I will review a little of Baruch Spinoza’s major ideas, before considering his two most important works: Treatise on Theology and Politics (1670) and Ethics (1677). Spinoza’s view of the divine is singularly distinctive in world history and staggering in its scope. I will consider a few of the ways in which he may have developed this and how his views completely remove the divine from dogmatic disputes. 総合政策学部 2023-03-15 eng departmental bulletin paper VoR https://chuo-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2000183 1341-7827 総合政策研究 Japanese Journal of Policy and Culture 31 1 32 https://chuo-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/2000183/files/0010-4116_31_01-32.pdf